Ah we're heading in the same direction in this enquiry.. Bob.. He could also try *sudo xastir* I guess and see if it finds ttyS0 itself then?
G'night Dave G0CER 2008/8/12 Bob Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It occurs to me that this could be an error message that's falsely > reporting > inability to find ttyS0, when in fact, it's reporting that the user that's > trying to run gtkterm isn't a member of the group that owns ttyS0. So that > user should be added to the group, and will need to log out and back in > again. > > Hope that helps, > > 73, Bob, KD7NM > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of Gerry Creager > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 4:56 PM > To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm > > Dave, > > I just talked to Jim on the phone for a bit. He's successfully got gtkterm > installed, and a valid config file but it now claims it can't find > /dev/ttyS0 to open it. > > It does exist but I'm now at a loss to determine how to see what it's > connected to... > > I just don't know ubuntu and debian. > > gerry > > Dave H wrote: > > Jim > > I just tried it on my Ubuntu radio pc and here are the results.. (the > > blue line is my input (pressing enter after) the rest is what comes > back. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -aux | grep ttyS0 > > Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See > > http://procps.sf.net/faq.html > > root 6038 0.0 0.6 4864 2468 pts/2 S+ Aug09 0:00 minicom > > ttyS0 > > davekh 8413 0.0 0.1 2988 764 pts/4 R+ 23:44 0:00 grep > ttyS0 > > > > The line above that starts with root would be the one your are > > interested in .. > > its the last bit of it thats telling you its about ttyS0 . Important > > - ignore the secondline that ends in "...grep ttyS0" thats just > > telling you you just looked for ttyS0. > > > > If you can copy and past it in to a reply (select in terminal and > > then choose edit/copy) before taking any other action. > > > > > > Dave > > G0CER > > (also G6VSG) > > http://www.eQSL.cc/Member.cfm?G0CER > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > -- > Gerry Creager -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University > Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 > Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843 > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- Dave G0CER (also G6VSG) http://www.eQSL.cc/Member.cfm?G0CER _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
